Petersfield U11 Girls v Hursley Park

27^th May 2012

The sun finally shone at the Heath ground allowing the younger of the Petersfield girl’s teams to complete their 1^st match of the season under hot conditions on Sunday. With 3 debutants in Eleanor, Grace and Genny the team had a new look about it as they took on a more experienced and slightly older Hursley Park side. New Captain Olivia Wadey lost the toss and opened the batting well scoring 4 4’s in her opening stand of 39 in 4 overs with Laura Bates and no wickets were lost until the introduction of the Hursley strike bowler in the 9^th over, she went on to take 3 wickets with some accurate and quick swing bowling. Some hard hitting and great running from the last pair of Jenny Sinclair and Ella Williams helped Petersfield post a very competitive score of 275 for 5 from their 16 overs.

Hursley started brightly in their reply with only some great fielding by all of the Petersfield girls keeping their opponents in check. Petersfield managed to claw their way back into the game with a deserved run out by debutant Genny, who was the stand out fielder of the day, and a great caught and bowled by Ella Williams. This set up a tense finish and when Laura Bates clean bowled one of the Hursley final pair it looked like Petersfield may take the win however in an exciting last over, which was well bowled under great pressure by Olivia Wadey, Hursley managed to score 3 singles to win the game despite two catches just evading a Petersfield hand.

All of the team played well and should be proud of themselves. Olivia Wadey top scored with 17, and Laura Bates, Emily Anscombe and Ella Williams led the bowling statistics with Genny proving her spirit with some brave fielding throughout the game.